natterjack

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  1. A very common European toad, Bufo calamita, belonging to the family Bufonidæ. Its color is light-yellowish, inclining to brown, and clouded with dull olive, and it has a bright-yellow line running along the middle of the back. It does not leap or crawl with the slow pace of the common toad, but its motion is more like running, whence it has also the name of walking toad or running toad. It has a deep, hollow voice, which may be heard at a considerable distance.

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  • It's not clear what's happened, but perhaps the other characters in the waiting room -- a cuckoo, a sea urchin, a natterjack toad, a bat, a fish and an egg -- can shed some light on the matter … —  downthetubes
  • In Britain, where viruses are already wiping out many hundreds of amphibians a year, conservationists fear for the future of the common toad, natterjack toad and crested newt. —  Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
  • I part the surface with the tiniest ripple, keeping my fore feet close packed to my sides, and swim with hind legs only, below the surface, neatly as a natterjack. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
  • The natterjack, sometimes as large as a plate, with a narrow stripe of yellow down his back, makes his appointments here to take his bath; when the evening twilight falls, we see hopping along the edge the midwife toad, the male, who carries a cluster of eggs, the size of peppercorns, wrapped round his hindlegs: the genial paterfamilias has brought his precious packet from afar, to leave it in the water and afterwards retire under some flat stone, whence he will emit a sound like a tinkling bell. —  The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
  • -- The natterjack at eve. —  Highways and Byways in Surrey
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